When it was revealed that Netflix would be paying over 400 million for the sequels to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, there was no denying that the films would be a top priority for the streamer. For the sequels, Johnson will be writing and directing the two Knives Out sequels, and will also be producing with his partner Ram Bergman. Daniel Craig will reprise his role of Detective Benoit Blanc, Deadline has reported a new addition to the cast. Dave Bautista (Army of the Dead) has become the first new addition to the Knives Out sequel as he’s slated to join Craig in the upcoming film. While Plot details are being kept under wraps and it’s not known just who Bautista will be playing, but production on the sequel is slated to kick off this summer in Greece.
Rian Johnson has previously teased that we shouldn’t expect more of the same for the sequel.
“The same way Agatha Christie wrote a bunch of Poirot novels,” Rian Johnson said, “we can do that with Blanc and keep making new mysteries, you know, whole new cast, whole new location, whole new mystery, it’s just another Beniot Blanc mystery. There’s so many different things you could do with it.” Johnson continued: “You look at Agatha Christie’s books for example, it’s not like every single one is a mansion, and a family, and a library, and a detective. Besides settings, she also explored a bunch of different sub-genres, And Then They Were None is essentially a slasher film, it’s basically a horror movie; The ABC Murders is kind of like a proto-serial killer movie in a way. She found a very different narrative way into each of them.”
